This tweet piqued my interest in how Dawkins might have described the omnibeast worshipped by so many.

@sandrider69: @RichardDawkins I have just read the opening salvo of Chapter 2 The God Delusion. There cannot be a more entertaining paragraph anywhere!

Excerpted from “The God Delusion”, by Richard Dawkins

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can be desensitized to their horror.

Those two sentences from that paragraph ring true. Dawkins accurately describes characteristics of the omnibeast as it and its acts are described in its own holy anthology.

It still gives me pause to experience the high degree of denial, dismissal, and irrational reasoning necessary to describe the beast as king, gentle, and loving. Amazing.

While most would regard sexual promiscuity as conflicting with their religious beliefs, the Paraves, who both compete as bodybuilders, believe that they can use their newfound connections to share the Gospel.

]]>https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/christians-pumping-iron-other-christians/feed/0moneyforliesElegance In Truthhttps://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/elegance-in-truth/
https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/elegance-in-truth/#respondWed, 10 Sep 2014 10:38:46 +0000http://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/?p=621]]>Saw this on Twitter. Chuckled and reflected on the elegance of a fundamental truth.

@sherlockmichael: Science is not inherently anti-religion, reality is; science is merely the means by which reality is brought to light.

]]>https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/elegance-in-truth/feed/0moneyforliesThe Jesus Proofhttps://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/the-jesus-proof/
https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/the-jesus-proof/#commentsSat, 30 Aug 2014 18:27:47 +0000http://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/?p=607Continue reading The Jesus Proof]]>You know, I’m not highly vested on either side of the existence of an historical Jesus Christ. I actually think the character is mostly good and useful, up to the whole living dead thing.

While I’ve seen a small number of huggable zombies in movies, christianity’s creation of a zombie god myth as the son of a magical god is far too irrational to entertain as realistic.

Not wishing to provoke the ire of believers, I’ve awaited the absolute truth of the hard evidence of a small number of little known scholars to announce proof that an historical Jesus Christ is nothing more than a wispy shadow of an early zombie character.

Now before the heads of any god fearing christians explode at the irrationality of non-belief, allow me this. You guys created (oops) “bible science”, “creation science”, and a 6,000 year old universe pooped into existence by magic. I get to play with Zombie Jesus.

]]>https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/the-jesus-proof/feed/4moneyforlieswpid-buddy_christ.jpgThe Real Danger Of Beliefhttps://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/the-real-danger-of-belief/
https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/the-real-danger-of-belief/#respondSat, 30 Aug 2014 13:27:50 +0000http://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/?p=603Continue reading The Real Danger Of Belief]]>In the following piece on Patheos you can read the story of an elected official ejecting a citizen from a public meeting for that person’s failure to participate in prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.

The quoted exchange (partial) gives you a feel for the nature of the event, and provides sufficient basis for my concern. Religion cannot exist without control, and that control inevitably leads to abuse. This story described but one form.

Religion cannot coexist with rational, humanitarian processes. At some point religion’s requirement for power and control surfaces to ill effect. In particular, religion and government are incompatible.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Winter Garden City Commissioners (in Florida), Mayor John Rees announced that they would begin with an invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance, as many government meetings do, and asked everyone to stand up.

John Thoreau, an atheist, remained seated. Normally, that would be irrelevant since he has every right to do that, but Rees had other ideas.

As the first syllable of the invocation was uttered, Rees told everyone to hold up because Thoreau was still sitting down…

]]>https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/the-reality-of-belief/feed/0moneyforlieswpid-wp-1409003698194.pngAn Accused Flasher Is Claiming Innocence On Grounds That His Penis Is Too Smallhttps://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/an-accused-flasher-is-claiming-innocence-on-grounds-that-his-penis-is-too-small/
https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/an-accused-flasher-is-claiming-innocence-on-grounds-that-his-penis-is-too-small/#respondSun, 24 Aug 2014 18:50:59 +0000http://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/an-accused-flasher-is-claiming-innocence-on-grounds-that-his-penis-is-too-small/UPROXX: A 54-year-old delivery man in Germany known as Herbert O., due to the fact that the court has not released his full name, has been accused of delivering an — ahem — unwanted package to a teenage girl. The girl and her mother reported to police that the man had approached…]]>

A 54-year-old delivery man in Germany known as Herbert O., due to the fact that the court has not released his full name, has been accused of delivering an — ahem — unwanted package to a teenage girl. The girl and her mother reported to police that the man had approached their house with his bratwurst (I’m so sorry) hanging out of his unzipped pants on full display, however the man claims that’s impossible due to the fact that his penis is too small to even be able to accomplish such a feat.

The man’s poor, probably extremely sexually unsatisfied wife has even backed him up, so now the court has ordered an official penis measuring.

“I’m sorry, darling, but your penis is too short to hang out of your trousers,” she told the local court in the town of Leer in East Frisia (Lower Saxony). Confronted with this conflicting…

]]>https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/doin-it-christian-style-demon-entered-through-sex/feed/0moneyforliesHigh School Admin To Female Students – Bend Over For Uniform Checkhttps://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/high-school-admin-to-female-students-bend-over-for-uniform-check/
https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/high-school-admin-to-female-students-bend-over-for-uniform-check/#respondSun, 24 Aug 2014 12:36:49 +0000http://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/?p=590]]>There’s no mention of religion in the article. Still, a high school administrator has female students in class bend over for a dress code check. I judge it likely that god, the bible, and religious puritanism are at the bottom of this.

]]>https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/high-school-admin-to-female-students-bend-over-for-uniform-check/feed/0moneyforliesFox News – Racist Pigs Extraordinairehttps://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/fox-news-racist-pigs-extraordinaire/
https://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/fox-news-racist-pigs-extraordinaire/#respondMon, 18 Aug 2014 01:40:08 +0000http://humanisthuman.wordpress.com/?p=588]]>I wonder, if the same white cop had killed a white Michael Brown and Bush was president, would we see similar indignation from Fox News?